Away In The Manger
Karen Birch Blundell and Adam De Sorgo, oboes
Away In The Manger
Bruce Atwell, Austin Larson, Andrew Parks, Keith Dom Powell, horns
Joseph Hauer, piano
Chamber Choir Ivan Filipovic
Goran Jerkovic, conductor
Richard Smert (c.1400-c.1479), Nowell: Dieus wous garde (Dieu vous garde)
Performed by Flanders Recorder Quartet & Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Peter Dijkstra
From the Begijnhofkerk, Sint-Truiden (Flanders, Belgium)
Who ys there that singith so ‘Nowell’?
I am heer, Syr Cristesmass.
Wellcome, my lord, Syr Cristesmass,
wellcome to all, both more and lass;
come neer, nowell.
Dieus vous garde, byews sir; tydings y yow bryng.
Hath a mayd born a chyld full ying,
the weche us causeth for to syng nowell.
Crist is now yborn of a clene mayd;
in an oxstall he ys ylayd;
wherefor syng we, all at a brayd, nowell.
‘Beuvex bien partut’ a la company;
make good cheer and be right mery,
and syng with us now joyfully nowell.
With the voices and faces of children …
